CAHFS Global Initiatives

Center for Animal Health and Food Safety Global Initiatives (formerly known as Global Initiative for Food Systems Leadership) aims to foster integrated and harmonized global food systems to improve global food security. This requires three critical elements: collaborative One Health capacity building at the interfaces of animal, plant, human, environmental, and economic health; leadership development and skill building courses and activities emphasizing core competencies like communications and systems thinking; and the formation/facilitation of effective public-private partnerships.

Leadership Development and Skill Building

CAHFS Global Initiatives programs span the public-private-academic sectors and consider the food system in its broadest scope

CAHFS Global Initiatives program participants include mid to senior level officials from government and industry, emerging leaders, university faculty, and early-to-mid career graduate and professional students.

Global Public-Private Partnerships

CAHFS Global Initiatives seeks to raise awareness and expand understanding of the inter-related roles of government, industry and civil society.

CAHFS Global Initiatives facilitates public-private-academic partnerships involving government agencies, private sector companies and organizations, non-government and inter-governmental organizations, as well as other educational institutions from developed, developing and in transition countries.

CAHFS Global Initiatives partners with a variety of organizations to catalyze incremental progress on the grand challenges facing the global food system.